Royalty Pharma plc operates as a buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties and a funder of innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry in the United States. Its portfolio consists of royalties on approximately 35 marketed therapies and 14 development-stage product candidates that address various therapeutic areas, such as rare disease, cancer, neuroscience, infectious disease, hematology, and diabetes. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York.